To help answer some of these questions, the AI
community is exploring new pedagogies and technologies. Thus, I am delighted to bring you this special issue of AI Magazine on AI education, which is
coedited by Michael Wollowski, Todd Neller, and
James Boerkoel. I thank the guest editors for their
excellent work and hope that this issue will help foster new thinking on AI education. I would love to
hear readers’ feedback on the issue.

of the world. This is bringing rapid diversification
among both teachers and students of AI. Third, there
is a growing need that AI education be available to
all citizens so that they can make informed decisions
about AI technologies without regard to hype about
the wonders of AI wonders or unfounded fears of
imagined threats. The success of the scientific and
technological enterprise of AI in the long term will
require the support of an informed citizenry.

These factors raise profound new questions for
education in AI. What kinds of AI knowledge and
skills does industry need from our graduates? How do
we meet these needs? How do we ensure quality,
depth, and rigor of education even as the teachers
and students of AI rapidly diversify? How do we
make AI education accessible? How do we make it
affordable? How do we make it achievable? If we are
unwilling or unable to answer these questions, then
we run the risk of creating an “AI divide” in which
only a small elite has access to the fruits of AI’s suc-

The Association for theAdvancement of Artifcial IntellligenceWelcomes the New India Chapter!

The India chapter was launched on Friday, 2 June,at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Hyderabad,with an inaguaral lectureby AAAI President Subbarao Kambhampation The Rise of Artificial Intelligence andthe Challenges of Human-Aware AI Systems